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Farmer Joe -Thailand's Bernard Matthews
Tough turkey says wife ‘This is Thailand’ From ANDREW DRUMMOND, Bangkok,December 23 2010 A Briton, who became Thailand’s premier turkey farmer, will be eating pot noodles today, because he says turkey sticks in his throat. Plucking away in Hua Hin in bygone days Joe Stanyer, 57, was the equivalent of Britain’s Bernard Matthews, but things […]
GANGLAND BRITAIN IN THAILAND (Contd) – Dinkie’s Enforcer
ANDREW DRUMMOND HUA HIN, AUGUST 07 2010 (Updated Sept 05 2010) Gunshots in the night, a man screaming in pain floundering in a swimming pool, an armed police raid, murder threats, and some tasty and violent characters from the British crime scene. These are episodes from the continuing soap opera at a housing project for foreigners in […]
British Drug Baron’s Luxury Thai Life On The Run – Updated
From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok, Feb 7 2009 GANGLAND IN HUA HIN (CNTD) Pictures by Andrew Chant and Hua Hin News A wealthy Briton who skipped bail during his high profile trial for drugs dealing has been able to live the ‘high life’ in Thailand due to incompetence and bungling by police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Darren Oxley, who […]
The BBC And The Gulf Of Tonkin
This is a blog only Is Burma softening its stance? The BBC is currently posing this question on its website in a fairly lengthy piece by my Bangkok colleague Alistair Leathead.The article quotes Derek Tonkin, former British Ambassador to Bangkok turned Burma watcher as saying: ‘Given the impasse of the last 20 years, what has […]
The One Who Got Away – Nation, Bangkok, September 16 2007
The one who got awayHeroin pusher David McMillan infamously escaped the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ – but he lived like a prince on the inside. publish on September 16, 2007The man I glimpse in London seems innocuous enough. Used to hiding in crowds, he now travels to work against the morning commuter rush to Dorking, a small […]
Drug Runner – A Dead Man Laughing – The Australian
Andrew Drummond, Bangkok | September 08, 2007THIS is one of the world’s most notorious – and remarkable – heroin traffickers: Melbourne man David McMillan. He should be dead. Or at least wasting away in a Thai jail awaiting death by hanging.Instead, on this September morning when The Weekend Australian tracked him down to London’s Fulham […]
As Scots Workers Are Axed Poverty Stricken Thais
Mail on Sunday November 26 2006 From Andrew DrummondOutside the factory on a massive trading estate near Bangkok, the temperature is almost 100 degrees.Inside, Thai workers are shivering at minus 10 as they monotonously grind away, chopping, vacuum-packing and packaging a variety of fish caught in the waters off Scotland that is to be returned […]
